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Now Parlez 14

Steve Binnie1989 • Music • Mixcloud • Now Parlez

Well, this got derailed over the past year, didn’t it? Sorry about that, but we’re back with episode 14 of Now Parlez! Join us as we talk about Now That’s What I Call Music 14 and play some tracks from a pretty shonky original vinyl copy of the album.

Join us on Patreon or Mixcloud Select for early access to future episodes of Now Parlez, as well as the weekly extended deluxe edition of Off The Chart, the additional show Further Off The Chart every ten weeks, and who knows what else? Go on, you won’t regret it.

Off The Chart: 22 December 1989

It’s Christmas! Well, actually, not quite, because we’re going back to this day in 1989 on this week’s Off The Chart and there was still one more chart to go before the big day. Still, all the constituent parts are … read more

22 December 2020 Steve Binnie1989 • Music • Mixcloud • Off The Chart1989 • Adeva • Band Aid II • Beautiful South • De La Soul • Distant Cousins • Duran Duran • Dusty Springfield • Electronic • FPI Project • Freddie Starr • Gianni Morandi • Halo James • Hue & Cry • Jason Donovan • Jive Bunny • Jonathon Morris • José Carreras • Kaoma • Living In A Box • Mixcloud • music • Off The Chart • Soul II Soul

Off The Chart: 12 May 1987

Despite the confusion over lockdown rules, it’s perfectly safe to listen to this week’s Off The Chart at the same time as everyone else! Stay at home and join us for two hours of forgotten hits from this day in … read more

12 May 2020 Steve Binnie1987 • Music • Mixcloud • Off The Chart1987 • Cutting Crew • Depeche Mode • Fall • Georgia Satellites • Go West • Hollywood Beyond • Judy Boucher • King • Labi Siffre • Living In A Box • Love & Money • Mint Juleps • Mixcloud • music • Off The Chart • OMD • REM • Richenel • Spear Of Destiny • Starship • Tom Jones • Toyah

Off The Chart: 29 October 1989

Don’t tune in at 19:00 or 18:14, but 21:00 hours sharp for this week’s Off The Chart! We’re heading back to this day in 1989 for two hours of hits, headlines and hokum including the usual brace of hits you’ve … read more

29 October 2019 Steve Binnie1989 • Music • Mixcloud • Off The Chart1989 • Beautiful South • Belinda Carlisle • De La Soul • Don Henley • Double Trouble • Frankie Knuckles • His Latest Flame • Janet Jackson • Jive Bunny • Johnnie O • Level 42 • Lisa Stansfield • Living Colour • Living In A Box • Milli Vanilli • Mixcloud • music • Off The Chart • Oh Well • Philippe Lafontaine • Quireboys • Rebel MC • Wedding Present • Wet Wet Wet

Sound of the Crowd – a Discography of the ’80s: Fourth Edition available now!

Sound Of The Crowd: a Discography of the ’80s is the ultimate record collector’s guide to the 1980s. In the era of multi-formatting, picture discs, coloured vinyl, multiple remixes, funny shaped records and tiny CDs you could lose down the back … read more

14 November 2018 Steve BinnieBooks • News • New releasesA Flock Of Seagulls • a-ha • ABBA • ABC • AC/DC • Adam Ant • Alarm • Alison Moyet • Altered Images • Associates • Aztec Camera • Bad Manners • Bananarama • Bangles • Beat • Beatles • Bee Gees • Big Audio Dynamite • Big County • Billy Bragg • Billy Idol • Blancmange • Blondie • Blow Monkeys • Bon Jovi • book • Bronski Beat • Bros • Bruce Springsteen • Bucks Fizz • Chas and Dave • China Crisis • Christians • Clash • Cliff Richard • Communards • Culture Club • Cure • Curiosity Killed The Cat • Cyndi Lauper • David Bowie • Deacon Blue • Dead Or Alive • Def Leppard • Depeche Mode • Dexys • Dire Straits • Duran Duran • Echo and the Bunnymen • Eddy Grant • Elton John • Elvis Costello • Erasure • Eurythmics • Fine Young Cannibals • Five Star • Fleetwood Mac • Frankie Goes To Hollywood • Fun Boy Three • Gary Numan • Genesis • George Michael • Gloria Estefan • Go West • Haircut One Hundred • Heaven 17 • Hipsway • Hot Chocolate • Housemartins • Howard Jones • Hue and Cry • Human League • Imagination • INXS • Iron Maiden • Jacksons • Jam • Janet Jackson • Japan • Jesus & Mary Chain • John Lennon • Johnny Hates Jazz • Julian Cope • Kajagoogoo • Kate Bush • Kim Wilde • Kirsty MacColl • Kool and the Gang • Kylie Minogue • Level 42 • Lionel Richie • Living In A Box • Lloyd Cole • Madness • Madonna • Marc Almond • Marillion • Matt Bianco • Mel & Kim • Miami Sound Machine • Michael Jackson • Morrissey • Motorhead • New Order • news • Nick Heyward • Nik Kershaw • OMD • Paul McCartney • Paul Young • Pet Shop Boys • Peter Gabriel • Phil Collins • Pink Floyd • Pogues • Police • Prefab Sprout • Pretenders • Prince • Queen • Rick Astley • Robert Palmer • Rod Stewart • Rolling Stones • Roxy Music • Sade • Samantha Fox • Scritti Politti • Shakin' Stevens • Simple Minds • Simply Red • Siouxsie and the Banshees • Slade • Smiths • Soft Cell • Spandau Ballet • Specials • Squeeze • Status Quo • Stephen Duffy • Stevie Wonder • Sting • Stranglers • style council • Swing Out Sister • T'Pau • Talk Talk • Talking Heads • Tears For Fears • Texas • The The • Thomas Dolby • Thompson Twins • Tina Turner • Toyah • U2 • UB40 • Ultravox • Visage • Voice of the Beehive • Wet Wet Wet • Wham! • Whitney Houston • XTC • Yazoo

Off The Chart: 23 June 1989

We’re approaching the end of the 1980s this week as we go back to 1989 on Off The Chart, so things are a bit weird with indie legends, raved-up cover versions and film themes all battling for chart supremacy. As … read more

23 June 2018 Steve Binnie1989 • Music • Mixcloud • Off The Chart1989 • A Certain Ratio • Baby Ford • Fall • Ghost Dance • Guns n' Roses • Holly Johnson • Hoodoo Gurus • Jason Donovan • Julian Cope • Les Negresses Vertes • Living In A Box • Mixcloud • music • Off The Chart • Pere Ubu • Prince • REM • Sinitta • Soul II Soul • Transvision Vamp • U2

Off The Chart: 11 November 1987

We head back thirty years to this very day in 1987 on this week’s Off The Chart! Steve and Julian take you through some of the week’s less remembered hits, discuss the day’s events, pick three tracks from one of … read more

11 November 2017 Steve Binnie1987 • Music • Mixcloud • Off The Chart1987 • Basia • Bee Gees • Bobby Womack • Chris Isaak • Erasure • George Harrison • George Michael • Housemartins • La's • Living In A Box • Mixcloud • music • Off The Chart • Pete Wylie • Richie Valens • Rick Astley • Smiths • Sting • Sugarcubes • T'Pau • Was (Not Was)

Off The Chart: 24 June 1987

Back thirty whole years to 1987 this week on Off The Chart as Steve and Julian play the week’s forgotten hits, three tracks from a hit album, a track from the Canadian chart and the UK top five in full. … read more

24 June 2017 Steve Binnie1987 • Music • Mixcloud • Off The Chart1987 • Black • Blow Monkeys • Bruce Willis • Crowded House • Curtis Mayfield • David Bowie • Echo & The Bunnymen • Firm • George Michael • Herb Alpert • JM Silk • Living In A Box • Mixcloud • music • Noel Murphy • Nylons • Off The Chart • Pepsi & Shirlie • Pet Shop Boys • Primal Scream • Shakin' Stevens • Steve 'Silk' Hurley • Whitney Houston

Off The Chart: 18 February 1989

What a week on Off The Chart: electric doormats, potential food poisoning and the UK singles chart from this week in 1989, including lots of hits you don’t hear very often and a top five you’ve already heard far too … read more

18 February 2017 Steve Binnie1989 • Music • Mixcloud • Off The Chart1989 • Beloved • Big Bam Boo • Edie Brickell & New Bohemians • Fine Young Cannibals • Frazier Chorus • Gap Band • Gaye Bykers On Acid • Holly Johnson • Living In A Box • Marc Almond • Michael Ball • Mike & The Mechanics • Mixcloud • music • Off The Chart • S-Express • Shakin' Stevens • Simple Minds • Ten City • XTC • Yazz

Review: Rewind Scotland, Scone Palace, 22-24 July 2016

It’s Friday night. I’m in the grounds of Scone Palace, and a fifty-something man in a Choose Life T-shirt has just come up to me offering the largest hipflask I’ve ever seen, full of ‘homemade’ whisky. In the distance, Pat … read more

21 August 2016 Laura ClayReviews • Live ReviewsABC • Adam Ant • Annabella Lwin • Beat • BEF • Black • Bow Wow Wow • China Crisis • concert • Go West • Holly Johnson • Leo Sayer • Living In A Box • Marc Almond • Midge Ure • review • Rick Astley • Stray Cats • Thomas Dolby • Tony Hadley • Toyah

Off The Chart: 9 July 1987

Live* from somewhere by the sea, the Off The Chart Roadshow revisits the chart of 9 July 1987. Steve and Julian don their Kiss Me Quick hats and play some forgotten hits of the week, three tracks from the featured … read more

9 July 2016 Steve Binnie1987 • Music • Mixcloud • Off The Chart1987 • a-ha • Broken English • Bruce Willis • Christians • Curiosity Killed The Cat • Firm • Fleetwood Mac • George Michael • Kane Gang • Living In A Box • Marillion • Mel & Kim • Mixcloud • music • Off The Chart • Pet Shop Boys • Peter Gabriel • Robbie Nevil • Robert Cray Band • Run DMC • Terence Trent D'Arby

Tweet Little History: Marcus Vere

If you’re heading to any of the Rewind, Flashback, Let’s Rock or similar festivals this year there’s a good chance you’ll see that band who did Living in a Box… what were they called again? Yes, Living in a Box … read more

19 March 2016 Steve BinnieTweet Little HistoryABC • interview • Living In A Box • Marcus Vere • Tweet Little History

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In a mere five minutes you'll be catapulted headfirst into another edition of #OffTheChart on #NoiseboxRadio - we'll be dragging you back to this day in 1986 for 2 hours of obscure, forgotten and neglected hits from that week's chart. Better pack a towel. offthechart.show/5-april-1986… pic.twitter.com/CzoWT6zW5B

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9:24 pm · 4 April 2022 ·
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Here we go! Two hours of hits, headlines and handstands from this day in 1982 - it's #OffTheChart time! Join us on #NoiseboxRadio via MyTuner Radio, your internet radio device, in your browser at noiseboxradio.com or at offthechart.show/29-march-198… pic.twitter.com/HqMaqTeeno

8:02 pm · 29 March 2022 ·
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Off The Chart

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Just five regular-sized minutes until this week's edition of #OffTheChart hits #NoiseboxRadio! We're heading back an eye-watering forty years to re-examine the chart and associated goings-on from this day in 1982. Join us at 9pm! offthechart.show/29-march-198… pic.twitter.com/9uKjaNAQN1

7:55 pm · 29 March 2022 ·
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Our Chrome and Metal level #Patreon backers can listen to an exclusive preview of tonight's #OffTheChart right now, including the full top 40 rundown! patreon.com/posts/off-char… Don't forget we're on @NoiseBoxRadioUK from tonight! Join us at 9! offthechart.show/22-march-198… pic.twitter.com/aBraZ5RhRE

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6:29 pm · 21 March 2022 ·
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Off The Chart

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You're just five short minutes away from this week's #OffTheChart - two hours of hits, headlines and hagiography from this day in 1985! Join us at madwaspradio.com and tweet along with the lunacy! offthechart.show/15-march-198… #MadWaspRadio pic.twitter.com/KaTc35fg98

8:55 pm · 15 March 2022 ·
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Off The Chart

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It's 1985 all over again on this week's #OffTheChart! Join us at 9pm on @MadWaspRadio for two hours of obscure, forgotten and neglected hits from 37 years ago today. That's if Central Television's legal department don't confiscate our playlist first. offthechart.show/15-march-198… pic.twitter.com/me6d2UpLOu

2:48 pm · 15 March 2022 ·
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Off The Chart

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Here we go! Two hours of hits, headlines and hedgehogs from this day way back in 1980 - it's #OffTheChart time! Join us at madwaspradio.com, on your smart speaker or at offthechart.show/8-march-1980… #MadWaspRadio pic.twitter.com/0qJVZjcjyN

9:00 pm · 8 March 2022 ·
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Off The Chart

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Take five minutes to compose yourselves and join us on #MadWaspRadio at 9pm for another #OffTheChart! This week we're heading back 42 years all the way to 1980, so don't panic and make sure you know where your towel is. offthechart.show/8-march-1980… pic.twitter.com/zejaWPAmSH

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Off The Chart: 14 June 1986

We’re heading back to this day in 1986 on this week’s Off The Chart to examine the UK singles chart at a time when hot new acts were rubbing shoulders in the listings with artists and songs from decades ago. … read more

Off The Chart: 7 June 1982

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